A blog about my dolls house room boxes and the miniature dolls and tiny textiles. A place for me to blog the dolls' clothes I smock for American Girl Dolls and for 1950s English Pedigree Dolls.

Wednesday, 6 November 2013

Crazy Quilt Bed Quilt

I have been asked if I would move my crazy quilted bed cover from my old blog to my new one seeing as it comes under the umbrella of "tiny textiles". I can copy it to here and it will be in both places. So far, I haven't attempted another one of these although I am working on a cream-on-cream one. Other things keep getting in the way though. Anyway here is the quilt copied from the old blog, heading and all.

Today I finally finished the 1:12 scale crazy quilt that I have been
working on for the last two or three weeks. The whole quilt measure 8
1/4 inches x 7 inches or 21cm x 17.5cm and there must be at least two
hundred tiny patches, I haven't counted them all. Each one is
embroidered around all sides just like in a real crazy quilt and the
tiny black edging finishes it all off. The edging was one that I bought
in England when we were there two years ago but it was sky blue, so
taking up my husband's suggestion, I dyed it black and then
slip-stitched it around the edges of the lined quilt once it was dry. I
am posting this to both my crazy quilting blog and my doll's house
miniature blog because it fits them both. The straight edge is the top
while the curved bottom edge is designed to go down the end and sides of
a four-poster bed.

I used the stitch and flip method of piecing the tiny patches by hand,
using a 3 mm or 1/8 inch seam and tiny running stitches.

This is a close-up of the bottom right hand corner showing some of the
decorative motifs such as a butterfly, Rose spray and fan.

About Me

Viv was born in Perth, Western Australia and is married to Eddie, who was born in Hull, Yorkshire and has lived in Australia since 1972. Between us we have three sons and two daughters, four grand-daughters and two grandsons. We are fortunate to call both Perth and Hull, home. Eddie is a member of AMRA and NERA, Viv belongs to World Wide CQ, Crazy Quilters International, Southern Cross Crazies, CQEmbellishers and WeeCreations.

Sadly, Eddie passed away on 18th February 2015 after a 2 1/2 year long battle with Cancer. He is with me every day though, in my thoughts, in my heart and in my conversation.

All my life I have loved embroidery, sewing, crochet, knitting, tatting and beading and anything else "crafty". Over the years I have taught embroidery, written seven books on embroidery, cross-stitch and decoupage and have demonstrated embroidery at Craft Fairs. I have also collected dolls house miniature furniture and dolls but until now I have never had the opportunity to join the two into one very pleasurable past-time. This blog is really about my miniature journey because whenever I start a new room box, I have no idea how it is going to finish up. I start with a vague plan and then the room develops it's own personality and takes over and I just follow along, each step leading on to the next.